Rep. Barbara Lee Kicks Off Her California Senate Campaign, Looks To Replace Dianne Feinstein
Since her controversial 2001 vote, Lee has regularly voted to end or limit American military involvement in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, though she has voted in favor of American support for Ukraine in its current conflict against Russia.
Domestically, Lee has championed racial justice and rights for women and minorities. She has shared her own story of traveling to Mexico to have an abortion in “a clinic in a back alley” before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion throughout the United States. In 2020, Lee teamed with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley to introduce the “The Anti-Racism in Public Health Act of 2020,” seeking to have racism declared a public health crisis.
If she wins, Lee will be only the third Black woman to serve in the Senate, after Carol Mosely Braun of Illinois and Kamala Harris, who represented California before becoming Vice President; Lee was actually on the shortlist to replace Harris but was ultimately not chosen. Now, Lee’s path to the Senate will have to include overcoming her popular Democratic opponents and winning a statewide general election. Based on her campaign video, she seems prepared for the fight. “To do nothing has never been an option for me,” Lee says, and she has set herself up to do a lot in this campaign season.
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